EUROPE: Ankara sent dossiers to the US for the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen, over his alleged links to the 15JUL failed coup attempt.

MIDDLE EAST: British Foreign Secretary Johnson is calling on Russia to pressure Syrian President al-Assad to step down.

TECHNOLOGY: Dutch scientists developed rewritable memory that stores information in the positions of individual chlorine atoms, two to three orders of magnitude beyond current hard disk or flash technology.

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Germany: Train attacker investigated for links to Islamic State.

German investigators found a hand-drawn flag of the Islamic State (IS) group in the room of a 17-year-old Afghan who attacked passengers on a regional train in Bavaria with an ax and a knife.

A claim made by IS that the Afghan asylum seeker was an IS “fighter” has not been verified.

The statement said the attacker was a member of the Islamic State group and carried out the attack in response to its calls to attack countries that are members of the anti-Islamic State coalition.

Police are still investigating whether the attacker was part of an Islamist network or radicalized himself individually.

Nigeria: According to a UNICEF report, almost a quarter of a million children are severely malnourished in the northeastern Borno state, where a violent campaign by Islamist extremists Boko Haram has kept aid groups away. (WP)

Turkey: Ankara sent dossiers to the US for the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen, over his alleged links to the 15JUL failed coup attempt. (RFE/RL)

MIDDLE EAST

Region: The Islamic Jihad group announced a Palestinian militant died after a tunnel collapse in the Gaza Strip, in the latest in a series of such incidents. (AFP)

Bahrain: The country rebuffed its British and US allies over a controversial ban on the Al-Wefaq opposition group, insisting it will brook no interference in its internal affairs. (AFP)

Lebanon: Human Rights Watch says more than half of the nearly 500,000 school-age Syrian children registered in the country do not go to school and receive no formal education. (AP)

Syria: British Foreign Secretary Johnson is calling on Russia to pressure Syrian President al-Assad to step down. (RFE/RL)

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Technology: Dutch scientists developed rewritable memory that stores information in the positions of individual chlorine atoms, two to three orders of magnitude beyond current hard disk or flash technology. (BBC)